clay shooting

[MrsGoof]

Butt guns

oooo errr misses, sounds like something for Fred

[Sockpuppet]

I thought it was a Shotgun Certificate... the FAC is for rifles... and handguns, if anyone remembers those...*

(*other than the 3 million or so illegal handguns now in the country).

Not 100% sure on the shotgun only route as all the people I know have rifles as well. For us we fill in the FAC and the shotgun certificate is an extra. I assumed you had to fill the FAC in as well for the references etc...

To be fair every police force seems to do it slightly differently so best to check with who your local chief constable is after all he is the one that will say yey or nay to your application.

[hattra]

You only need a Shotgun Certificate for a shotgun, because it's not classed as a firearm (being smoothbored with a barrel length of greater than 26"). Anything else, either chemically-powered or with a muzzle energy of greater than 2 foot-pounds (probably metricated these days) is classed as a firearm. Anything with a muzzle energy of less than 2 ft-lbs is classed as fecking useless.... (aka AirSoft)

Which means that all you need to use a 16-pounder cannon (heh-heh!) is a shotgun certificate (& and a black-powder certificate as well, of course)

Bit difficult to hide one of them under your coat, though and they won't let me use at my local clay-pigeon shoot